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Thursday, 7 April 2016

Doctor Who - The Starship Mary-Rose

The Doctor and Rose board the wrecked Starship Mary-Rose to find a datadump with the location of the Rice Pudding Graveyard. Expecting trouble, the Doctor is accompanied by a small group of World War II reenactors. He has taken the precaution of reactivating their weapons so that they work: in fact they work rather better than the originals!

And trouble is a-coming: a Dalek with pig slave.

The boards are from a new GW game and represent a wrecked ship's interior. So there are lots of vertical walls, corridors and rooms. It's not open space.

A burst from a Dalek Agent's sub-blaster past the Doctor's left ear is the first sign that he has been rumbled.

The real 'Big-Bad' is revealed. The Master is also wants unlimited rice pudding and has sacrificed some of his minions to get into the datadump room. A hail of shots from the reenactors takes out the agent and, astonishingly, a Dalek when a freak shot goes right down it's eye stalk.

'My vision is impaireeeed'

The blinded Dalek drives straight into a corridor wall at high speed and explodes: they do keep doing that.

The Doctor and Rose break into the datadump room but The Master is waiting. The Doctor downloads the data with his sonic screwdriver. Meanwhile The Master knocks Rose down and threatens her with his laser-screwdriver.

'The data or the mayfly gets it, Doctoooor."

A hail of blaster bursts from the surviving reenactors, who have taken out the last Dalek with a grenade down the hatch, knocks down the pig-slave and distracts The Master so that the Doctor can rush him, defeat him in hand-to-screwdriver combat, and rescue Rose.

While the Doctor tends Rose's injuries, The Master recovers and slips away. There will be other opportunities.